Not fabulous mermaids

Nice and interesting post marfa, never knew that these stories existed on the water beings.

@Nekoshema: A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and other Subversive Spirits by Carol and Dinah Mack seems rather biased on Demons, Daemons, and the Fey.

Marfa and redmercury, could you please write for us where you found this information? They were very interesting, thank you for sharing. I really did enjoy reading them. However, it's polite to write where you found things when copying them. =)

Once again I repeat that information for his article took the books, articles from newspapers and articles from the Internet.
"Vedomosti" newspaper section "unusual."
Magazine "Unidentified close." Article s called "mermaid week."
Magazine "UFO" article called "dangerous neighborhood".
Book by Ashakov. S. "At Pentecost."
Also helped the interenet
Also received information from a variety of books on Slavic mythology and the mythology of the world.
I do not simply copy other people's articles. I work with different sources of information.
I answered your questions?

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Hello wolfstar.vis. I wrote this article for people to better understand the origin of myths. With this belief and myth is not taken from contemporary books and films, and has historical roots.
I have already written the myth of zombies, they do not exist as they describe in the movies.
It's voodoo sorcerers (PRA) conducted a ritual and immerse the person with the help of potions in a state in which he blocked some authorities are responsible for heart rate, respiration, blood circulation, but strangely left untouched by consciousness. As a result, people like to die, and then, after some time, revived in part without remembering his past life, or not remembering any at all.
These myths are the primary film and contemporary stories from the books.

I think you misunderstand me. I did not mean stories, fictional stories but stories, historical stories.

And you're right for the zombie thing. The zombies in movies are mostly based from ghouls.

I'm from Ireland. Heres a really good story about a Mermaid.

The seven stones of sligo.
One day a man was walking along the beach of the ocean when he heard a beautiful voice drawing him. He hid behind a giant rock and watched her. She was beautiful. Her hair was blonde and she was brushing it with sea shells. Only once she stopped singing he noticed she had a fish's tail. Bit he didn't care. Days on days he returned to watch her sing. He felt himself falling in love with her, and once his father arranged for him to marry someone else, he felt it was time to talk to the mermaid.
The first time he approached her, she just dove back into the sea, so he just watched her some more until a week later, she wasn't sitting by the shore, she was sitting beside the cliffs, in the shade on this unusually hot day.
He told her she had a lovely voice, she didn't reply, he said she was beautiful, she said she was a monster, he said he didn't care.
Two weeks later they married, when her tail dried up, it turned into a lovely green and silver blanket. They planted a tree, to symbolize her new life on land, and she buried her blanket under the roots of the tree. Forty years later, she and her husband had seven children.
one day when she was walking through the garden, she found that the tree had been struck by lightning, the trunk of the tree, and the grass had be burned to ashes, the only thing unharmed was her blanket. She started to cry because she knew that this meant it was time to return to the sea, she was immortal, and the gods saw it unfair to make her watch her entire family grow and die.
The next day when her husband went to work, she brought all seven of her children down to the beach. She kissed them each, one by one, and one by one they all turned to stone. She then dove back into the sea, and forgot that they had all even existed, but legend says she still returns to that beach everyday and crys.

This is a mermaid legend baised around these seven giant slabs of stone sticking out of the beach in county sligo, Ireland. It's a tale that has been passed down from generation until it was finely published and is still very popular.

I enjoy the zombie myths in Voodoo. How the Bokor would place a powder derived from the poison of a puffer fish into the shoes of a victim and take control of the person in the vegatative state.

Wow DarkSun! How very sad. I prefer the stories with happy endings! But that one I guess would be a warning to those who desire to marry such beings. I've heard many stories of men marrying magickal women like fae, elves, and sea women, but never have I heard one so sad! Normally the female just runs off and disappears, and her children are more magickal than normal humans. My theory on such beings is that some areas of the world are more open to the other planes and water being a conductor of energy would make sense why such beings seem to cross over to manifestation on our plane around water. Some men's bodies that have been "drowned" by mermaids could never be found again, much like the Tuatha de Danann that took on lovers and brought them to their lands, usually traveling over water as well to reach their world...I don't know, its just a theory based off of cross referencing myths. Sailors seem to see the strangest creatures...not to mention the Bermuda Triangle. Like was mentioned, scientists have verified that their are multiple dimensions to our world. Perhaps deities and mythical beings are just in one of them, which explains why they are so rare to encounter, yet consistently encountered.

i've heard of a few like that actually. i'm the opposite, i like sad or bittersweet endings. there was this one tale i heard about mermaids playing on the shore while their seal pelts dried. a man saw the beautiful woman, and he stole one of the pelts. when the sun began to set they all but one grabbed their seal pelts and returned to the sea. the one who remained searched everywhere, when the man stepped out he told her he had the pelt but would never return it, and he forced her to marry him. years passed and she had some children with the man. one day while the children were playing, her youngest son found the seal pelt. he brought it to his mother to show him what he found. she kissed her son, took the pelt and ran to the sea never to return.

it's odd, i've never heard a story about merfolk that doesn't end tragically. i've heard tales of females dragging the men they love down, unknowingly drowning them, males coaxing woman to live in their homes under the sea, but trap them there forever. the most common i've heard is their victims are drowned because they drag them down, infatuated by love. if Areal did that i might actually like The Little Mermaid lol. but i'm never happy [still wish they stuck to the original Cinderella ending where the evil step sisters cut off pieces of their feet so they could fit into the shoe, then their eyes are pecked out by two doves.]